?RCS: $Id: mboxchar.U 1 2006-08-24 12:32:52Z rmanfredi $
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?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi
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?RCS: $Log: mboxchar.U,v $
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2 1995/07/25 14:13:12 ram
?RCS: patch56: ensure ctrl-A characters are visible in prompt (WED)
?RCS:
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1994/05/06 15:11:22 ram
?RCS: patch23: added support for MMDF mailboxes (WED)
?RCS:
?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:09:15 ram
?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
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?MAKE:mboxchar: cat package shsharp Myread Oldconfig
?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
?S:mboxchar:
?S: This variable contains the eventual value of the MBOXCHAR symbol,
?S: which is how a C program can identify a file as a mailbox.
?S:.
?C:MBOXCHAR:
?C: This symbol contains a character which will match the beginning
?C: of a mailbox file.
?C:.
?H:#define MBOXCHAR '$mboxchar' /**/
?H:.
?T:CTRLA
?INIT:CTRLA=`echo a | tr a '\001'`
: determine how to determine when a file is a mailbox
case "$mboxchar" in
'') dflt=F;;
?X: The following ^A is two-chars to ensure it will print out -- WED
"$CTRLA") dflt='^A';;
*) dflt="$mboxchar";;
esac
$cat <<EOM
In saving articles, $package wants to differentiate between saving to
mailbox format files and normal files. It does this by examining the
first character of the file in question. On most systems the first line
starts with "From ...", so the first character is an F. Other systems
use magic cookies like control codes between articles, so one of those
would be first. For example, MMDF messages are separated with lines of
four control-A's (you may specify one as ^A, i.e. caret A).
EOM
rp="What's the first character of a mailbox file?"
. ./myread
mboxchar="$ans"
case "$mboxchar" in
'F') ;;
"$CTRLA") ;;
'^A'|'^a') mboxchar="$CTRLA";;
*) cat <<'EOM'
You will need to edit the shell script mbox.saver to properly append an
article to a mailbox. The arguments to the script are documented in
EOM
case "$shsharp" in
false) echo "comments in mbox.saver.std.";;
true) echo "comments in the shell script itself.";;
esac
esac